Deaths
- January 29 - Alan Ladd, 50, American actor
- February 27 - Orry-Kelly, 66, Australian-born costume designer for American films
- March 23 - Peter Lorre, 59, Hungarian actor, later career in American films
- April 18 - Ben Hecht, 70, American playwright and screenwriter
- May 10 - Carol Haney, 39, American dancer, actress
- May 13 - Diana Wynyard, 58, British actress
- August 6
- Cedric Hardwicke, 71, British actor
- Reed Howes, 64, American model and actor
- August 12 - Ian Fleming, 56, British author of James Bond novels
- August 28 - Gracie Allen, 69 American actress, comedian
- September 28 - Harpo Marx, 75, American comedy actor (The Marx Brothers)
- September 28 - Nacio Herb Brown, 68, American songwriter and composer
- October 10 - Eddie Cantor, 72, American actor, singer, comedian
- October 15 - Cole Porter, 73, American composer and songwriter
- October 23 - Jo Swerling, 71, American screenwriter
- December 9 - Edith Sitwell, 77, British actress
- December 11 - Percy Kilbride, 76, American actor
- December 14 - William Bendix, 58, American actor
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)
“There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
—Philip Caputo (b. 1941)
“On almost the incendiary eve
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—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)